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EMA Review: Julius Caesar Scrumptious ★★★★
By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic, EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas Betrayal! Tragedy! Being stabbed in the back! No, I’m not talking about my dating life, but describing the new Shakespeare-in-the-Park production by Nevada Shakespeare Festival of Julius Caesar by, obviously, William Shakespeare. The story is easy to follow: Cassius and Brutus conspire to kill Julius Caesar because they believe he is abusing his power, then have t
Erik Engman
5 days ago
EMA Review: Come From Away Irresistible ★★★★★1/2
By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic, EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas 25 years. It has been 25 years since 9/11 and that terrible day when terrorists commandeered four planes and changed our lives forever through violence and hatred. Can you believe it? I can’t. I was working in Burbank on the Disney Studios lot, in the ABC building, that day. I watched it all unfold on a wall of television sets, each tuned to a different channel.
Erik Engman
Sep 6
EMA Review: Private Lives **** Scrumptious
Classic Manners By Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.compaul-atreides.com Las Vegas Little Theatre (LVLT) opened its 49th season with the Noël Coward comedy classic Private Lives to a full house. Written and originally performed in September 1930 (London), it opened on Broadway in January 1931. Described as a “comedy of manners,” the play entered the public domain in January of this year. It centers on a divorced couple who discover t
Paul Atreides
Sep 5
EMA Review: THE ANDREW BROTHERS Scrumptious ★★★★
By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic, EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas It’s the South Pacific, March of 1945, and brothers Max, Patrick, and Lawrence Andrews are putting on a U.S.O show featuring the sassy performer Peggy Jones and the famous Andrews Sisters! But tragedy strikes, and the show is in danger of being canceled… unless they come up with a crazy solution! This is the setting for Super Summer Theatre and Rearview Vegas En
Erik Engman
Aug 6
EMA Review: Prom Night '99 ★★★★★
RELIVE YOUR HIGH SCHOOL DAYS WITH PROM NIGHT ‘99! By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic, EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas I hated high school. Sure, I had some good friends and some positive experiences, but I was a theater, sci-fi, AV nerd. I was mercilessly teased and bullied. It was hell. Needless to say, I never went to my prom. Did I miss out on something? Some rite of passage? Well, I don’t have to wonder anymore, as last Thu
Erik Engman
Jul 25
FALLOUT FRINGE FESTIVAL 2026-Day 7
By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas It’s Day 7, and that means debuting three shows at the same time, two of which I’ll review in the next couple of days. Also, lots of drama unfolded as Bizarre Bar lost power, and Broken Planet Show was moved to Cornish Pasty, playing after The Outburst: We’re Still F*cked. (If you want to read my review of the one-and-done performance of The Outburst: We’re Still
Erik Engman
Jun 11
FALLOUT FRINGE FESTIVAL 2026-Day 5
By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas It’s day 5 of the Fallout Fringe Festival, and it is moving into another phase of the festival. Some plays are finished, and new ones are emerging. Tonight I only have one new play to review. You can access the full schedule at www.falloutfringe.org/schedule. Heavy Petting Zoo by Venus Cobb Satisfying ★★★ Two short plays in one, both involving animals and s
Erik Engman
Jun 9
FALLOUT FRINGE FESTIVAL 2026-Day 3
By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas After taking the day off for First Friday, the Fallout Fringe Fest continues with some amazing shows (and if you were lucky enough to catch the Cockroach Cabaret at Vegas Theatre Company on Friday night, you would have gotten a taste of some plays yet to come). I review two non-traditional shows that exemplify what the Fringe is all about. You can access the full
Erik Engman
Jun 7
EMA Review: The Will to Live ***1/2 Scrumptious
Rewinding the Clock By Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.compaul-atreides.com The Will to Live, Juliana Noble’s first play, deservedly won Best of Fringe at the 2024 Las Vegas Fringe Festival. It was a trimmed-down script to fit the 60-minute time slot. Now, 23 months later, the full play debuts at Vegas Theatre Company with Noble again in the director’s chair. The play’s conceit and hook is that it is structured backward. It opens wi
Paul Atreides
May 10
EMA Review: ROMEO AND JULIET Delicious ★★★★★
By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas RATING: Delicious ★★★★★ A stark landscape. Smoke fills the space. Harsh vertical fluorescent lights. Images projected on the floor and wall. Foreboding music. This is the setting you encounter when you enter Majestic Repertory Theatre’s production of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Set in the present day, or as it says in the program, “Right Here - Righ
Erik Engman
Apr 18
EMA Review: Henry V Delicious ★★★★★
By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas Henry V (also known as The Life of Henry the Fifth ) by William Shakespeare is one of the more well-known of his history plays (thanks in part to the brilliant 1989 Kenneth Branagh film). One of the strengths of this play is that the plot is straightforward: King Henry V of England, after being insulted by the French Dauphin, wages war across France to claim the
Erik Engman
Mar 9
EMA Review: Four Old Broads **** Scrumptious
By Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.com paul-atreides.com They’re baa-aack! The ladies from last season’s Four Old Broads on the High Seas reprise their roles in Four Old Broads , by Leslie Kimbell, and couldn’t be more delightful. Coming off her keyboard first in 2018, this one is overdone in that the final scene sucks a bit of air out of things. But, overall, the dialogue sparkles, and it’s still funny. While High Seas took them
Paul Atreides
Mar 7
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